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I haven't come accros this product myslef but if it has an official linux driver there sbould be a way to do it. At what part of the install/configuration did you run into problems.
If have tried the two main wireless driver (wlan & prism) but in both cases the device is not recognised.
Meanwhile I asked the manufacter about the device. His reply:
"I am sorry to say this wireless USB adapter does not have Linux Drivers. It uses the Zydan chipset."
Any hints to get this working?
Ever heard of a driver for this chipset?
Is it an older version or a modified version? Perhaps they modified the driver to support their chipset. Why would they say it works if it doesn't (other than to make you buy it)?
Things are improving. I actually _read_ the readme that comes with the driver adn found some interesting things:
1. I patched my usbcore with the patch that is included in the download. This got rid of my "device is not accepting new address" error.
2. The driver is a modified wlan-ng copy. Meaning the original wlan-ng will never work for this chipset. ;-) So installed the Sweex version of the driver.
I also followed all your steps as described.
However it still gives me errors.
- ifconfig does not show any wlan0 device
- wlanctl-ng wlan0 <something> gives "wlanctl-ng: no such device"
- in de kernel log it says "USB device is not claimed by any driver". After this it still loads the (correct) prism2_usb driver. lsmod looks OK as well.
Any hints?
How do I get wlan0 to show when running ifconfig?
I noticed that after I plugged in the adapter, Linux loaded the original usbcore and the original prism2_usb as supplied by the distribution. (I had compiled a new usbcore to get ride of the "device not accepting address" message).
I had renamed these drivers by means of back up but it worked out this does not fool Linux. It still recognized them as being valid drivers. So after I removed this drivers from the Linux driver directory and rebooted, the proper drivers loaded when I plugged in the adapter.
And after running wlanctl-nf ..... and ifconfig (as described in the readme) the wlan0 device is created and showing when I run ifconfig.
Happy boy now!
Also found out for sure now: the Sweex Usb Adapter (ZyDAS 1201 chipset) only works with the Sweex-driver (www.sweex.com). The standard wlan-ng driver does not work for it.
don't really know since I only have one adapter. ;-)
But then again, when you use ad-hoc mode with static ip-addresses it should not be different from accessing an AP with static IP (and this works for me). Ad hoc mode with dynamic IP could be more difficult but maybe this is simply impossible under the Wifi protocol, I don't know.
I would set the ip-addresses of your to adapters to say 192.168.0.1 and .2. Make sure your netmask is 255.255.255.0 and then do a ping. Should work.
In ad-hoc mode, the two adapters do not even detect themselves. The led blinks and that's all.
When I start wlan, it says that this mode is unsupported but ad-hoc is supported since a while in the standard linux-wlan.
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